{"id":17219,"date":"2015-11-27T08:52:34","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T15:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17219"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:14:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T16:14:48","slug":"ragwort-good-or-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/ragwort-good-or-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Ragwort &#8211; Good or Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Common Ragwort\u00c2\u00a0 <em>Senecio jacobaea<\/em> or <em>Jacobea vulgaris<\/em> is a specified weed as it can kill animals that graze on it. Even when\u00c2\u00a0 cut with hay and wilted it is toxic to horses and cattle. <span class=\"st\" data-hveid=\"57\">It is not a significant problem in gardens and some claim its toxicity with horses is overstated<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragwort.org.uk\/\">Ragwor<\/a>t appreciation society wants to look at the myths and facts<\/p>\n<p><em>Senecio jacobaea<\/em> is part of our biodiversity and provides nectar and pollen for many insects. Cinnabar moths can be an effective biocontrol limiting growth and seed production. Eggs are laid in May -June and catterpillars feed on leaves in July- August. Thay can strip a plant down to its stalks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common Ragwort\u00c2\u00a0 Senecio jacobaea or Jacobea vulgaris is a specified weed as it can kill animals that graze on it. Even when\u00c2\u00a0 cut with hay and wilted it is toxic to horses and cattle. It is not a significant problem in gardens and some claim its toxicity with horses is overstated &nbsp; Ragwort appreciation society wants to look at the myths and facts Senecio jacobaea is part of our biodiversity and provides nectar and pollen for many insects. Cinnabar moths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/weeds-gardening\/ragwort-good-or-evil\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeds-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}